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The project main steps
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The XMM-Newton project (X-ray Multi-Mirror) is the second "corner stone" mission of the ESA. XMM-Newton is a high resolution X-ray observatory. It was launched from Kourou base, French Guiana on December 10, 1999 by an Ariane 5 launcher.
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French scientists from CEA/SAp and IAS have contributed to the EPIC instrument and scientists from the Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements (CESR) in Toulouse developed the ERMS (EPIC Radiation Monitor System) instrument.
Several Franch laboratories also participate to XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (SSC) which objective is to ensure an optimal scientific result of this mission by realizing a systematic analysis of the observations, and to propose identifications (individual or statistical) of the X sources. The SSC is a consortium of 8 European institutes: Leicester University (PI), the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, the Institute Of Astronomy de Cambridge, thee MPE, the AI of Potsdam, the CEA-Saclay, the IRAP (ex CESR), the Strasbourg observatory, the Cantabria University and the Brera Observatory.
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Latest update 30/09/2011
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29/09/2011 
ESA spacecraft reveal new anatomy around a black hole |
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09/03/2011
An old galaxy cluster discovered in the young Universe |
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Image of the starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82) obtained with the XMM-Newton observatory. The image shows bright knots in the plane of the galaxy, indicating a region of intense star formation, and emerging plumes of supergalactic winds glowing in X-rays. © ESA
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XMM-Newton has studied a number of star-forming regions including NGC 346, a bright, active star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), an irregular dwarf galaxy nearby to our Milky Way. © ESO/ESA/JPL-Caltech/NASA/D. Gouliermis (MPIA) et al.
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SCIENCE
X-ray Multi-Mirror
